Welcome to the CF Rocksmith 2014 Championship!

-= Week 608 =-

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Previous' week Winners are:

Lead:
- Beginner: @ Willyam  (53)
- Intermediate: @ loudly (95.92)
- Advanced:@ cacahuate51 (97.28)
- Masterclass: LOST TROPHY
- God of Guitar: Leader after week 1 is @ Willibam  (95.9), 1 week left... KEEP ROCKING!!!

Rhythm:
- Beginner: @ AndreCardoso  (82)
- Intermediate: @ Vodka (100)
- Advanced:@ loudly (96)
- Masterclass: @ Rodman (94)

Bass:
- Beginner: @ Willyam (88)
- Intermediate: @ MaltaSoron (93)
- Intermediate Bonus: @ MaltaSoron (94.1)
- Advanced: @ Daz40 (98.82)
- Masterclass: @ rosefog (99.31)

 

Congrats to all winners. Well done!

This week's songs are:

Lead Path:
Beginner: Sweet - Blockbuster (3*) (E Standard) selected by Daz40
Intermediate: American Hi-Fi - Flavor of the Weak (4.5) (Drop D) selected by caca
Advanced: Megadeth - Addicted to Chaos (7*) (Eb Standard) selected by RaZrShReD
Advanced Bonus: Kessoku Band - If I could be a constellation (8^) (E Standard) selected by Dood1332

Masterclass: Dream Theater - Paralyzed (8.5) (Bb Standard) selected by cacahuate51
Masterclass: Dream Theater - Paralyzed (8.5) (E Standard) selected by cacahuate51 DROP PITCH VERSION
God of Guitar: Liquid Tension Experiment - When The Water Breaks (9.5) (E Standard) selected by cacahuate51 [Week 2 of 2]

Rhythm Path:
Beginner: Sweet - Blockbuster (3*) (E Standard) selected by Daz40
Intermediate: American Hi-Fi - Flavor of the Weak (4) (Drop D) selected by caca
Advanced: Dream Theater - Paralyzed (7.5^) (Bb Standard) selected by caca
Advanced: Dream Theater - Paralyzed (7.5) (E Standard) selected by caca DROP PITCH VERSION
Advanced Bonus: Megadeth - Addicted to Chaos (6) (E Standard) selected by RaZrShReD
Masterclass: Kessoku Band - If I could be a constellation (8) (E Standard) selected by Dood1332

Bass Path:
Beginner: Sweet - Blockbuster (3.5^) (E Standard) selected by Daz40
Intermediate: American Hi-Fi - Flavor of the Weak (4) (Drop D) selected by caca
Advanced: Super Soul Bros - Fourside (7.5*) (E Standard) selected by rosefog
Advanced Bonus: Dream Theater - Paralyzed (7*) (Bb Standard) selected by cacahuate51
Advanced Bonus Dream Theater - Paralyzed (7) (E Standard) selected by caca DROP PITCH VERSION
Masterclass: Kessoku Band - If I could be a constellation (8) (E Standard) selected by Dood1332

(N) - difficulty rating
(N*) - highest difficulty rating for the class (promotion to higher class possible)
(N^) - difficulty rating higher than the highest for the class (promotion possible)

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On 6/17/2025 at 1:07 AM, Daz40 said:

Then Its rock paper scissors right. ??

Surely you’d roshambo Eric Cartman style for it?

showing my age here

Well unexpectedly it is saturday. And I didn't has a time to practice more this week. And that's sad. Sorry but there's no Int Lead of mine this time (again)...

It doesnt seem to be that hard but the fhps do seem a bit odd to me and makes me overthink/messup alot

2 hours ago, Vodka said:

Well unexpectedly it is saturday. And I didn't has a time to practice more this week. And that's sad. Sorry but there's no Int Lead of mine this time (again)...

You still got time, I berieve in u!!

Also didn't see @ drand  post this week noticed shes been playing less since 3dg cover hopefully all is good .

Crazy week lifewise so didn't get playing as much as I wanted to. Gonna just drop the screenshots here, bit rushed for time!

 

 

2 hours ago, cacahuate51 said:

You still got time, I berieve in u!!

Also didn't see @ drand  post this week noticed shes been playing less since 3dg cover hopefully all is good .

You've got me! Of course this result is terrible. Rolls part is too fast for me. And some of solo parts too hard for an hour practice time.

@ drand  give us a sign. Are you under covers completely now?

2 hours ago, cacahuate51 said:

You still got time, I berieve in u!!

Also didn't see @ drand  post this week noticed shes been playing less since 3dg cover hopefully all is good .

Aw thank you, it’s nothing crazy I just started a new job and my lease is almost up so I am on the hunt for a place to live all month and beyond. I have been playing the acoustic when I can but I am shook @ Vodka  is leaving me in the dust!! 🤣🤣 awesome progress 👏🏻 

Me every day instead of putting in real work: “Anyway here’s House of the Rising Sun…”

I'm starting to think I'm made only for playing fast notes on one string 😛



By the way, I'm the only contender in Intermediate Bass, right? I'm wondering what the lowest score is I could get away with 😛 

On the topic of fast notes: I want to try the Alternate Rythm path of https://ignition4.customsforge.com/cdlc/60009, but Rocksmith wants me to tune six strings. How can I do that? Or should I just skip the RS tuner and do it myself? 

Edit: just remembered there's a tuner in the main menu, problem solved!

13 minutes ago, MaltaSoron said:

On the topic of fast notes: I want to try the Alternate Rythm path of https://ignition4.customsforge.com/cdlc/60009, but Rocksmith wants me to tune six strings. How can I do that? Or should I just skip the RS tuner and do it myself? 

Yep i would skip or if you want, hold down the 5th fret or 4th fret (its one of those i always get confused lol) of the highest string of your 5 string bass that way it wont bug you to retune it every time you do a 5 string path in that tunning. 

as for your previous comment of being the only one in intermediate xP:

@ jasmith85  is also intermediate bass as of last week, he plays emulated bass (but hopefully he should give you some competition in the weeks) 

there's also @ drand  😛 maybe she'll give you some competition when she's free. Btw congrats on the new job and wish you luck on finding an affordable spot that you like! 

5 minutes ago, cacahuate51 said:

Yep i would skip or if you want hold down the 5th fret or 4th fret (its one of those i always get confused lol) of the highest string of your 5 string bass

Good point, I forgot about tuning to the bass itself! Thanks! Edit: it's the 5th fret.
 

5 minutes ago, cacahuate51 said:

as for your previous comment of being the only one in intermediate xP:

@ jasmith85  is also intermediate bass as of last week, he plays emulated bass (but hopefully he should give you some competition in the weeks) 

there's also @ drand  😛 maybe she'll give you some competition when she's free. Btw congrats on the new job and wish you luck on finding an affordable spot that you like! 

 

Haha, good to know!

Edited June 21Jun 21 by MaltaSoron

On 5 string bass:

Well thanks for calling me out y'all 😂 

why is the Easy song so much harder from me than Intermediate 💀

 I tend to not do bass because you have to recalibrate not gonna lie

1 hour ago, MaltaSoron said:

I'm starting to think I'm made only for playing fast notes on one string 😛



By the way, I'm the only contender in Intermediate Bass, right? I'm wondering what the lowest score is I could get away with 😛 

Oopsie, that should have been this screenshot:

Edited June 21Jun 21 by MaltaSoron
Grammar

28 minutes ago, drand said:

Well thanks for calling me out y'all 😂 

why is the Easy song so much harder from me than Intermediate 💀

It's the bloody string switching, I'm telling you 😛

For comparison, this song (ODLC) should objectively be harder than Blockbuster, but I just got 91% on the first try because I can just play fast on one string for the most part:

Yoink @ MaltaSoron

43 minutes ago, drand said:

Well thanks for calling me out y'all 😂 

why is the Easy song so much harder from me than Intermediate 💀

 I tend to not do bass because you have to recalibrate not gonna lie

My bad 😅

Probably because intermediate is more familiar/ we are used to playing powerchords.
There is only like 2/3 sections for begginer song

the Em section which looks harder than it is. You can leave your first finger on the 1 all the time and just move ring and middle finger down a string and then off and repeat.

the johnny be goode section. I personally use my 1 2  fingers on the normal power chord and 1 4 on the stretch. kinda like if you played every breathe you take but all on the same string. In the the official johnny be good they do use fingers 1 3 and 1 4 though. But i personally cramp when i do that/ feel like i have to stretch pinky more than i need to.
 

30 minutes ago, drand said:

Yoink @ MaltaSoron

I TRIED SO HAAAAAAARD
AND GOT SO FAAAAAAR
BUT IN THE EEEEEEND
IT DOESN'T EVEN MAAATTEEERRR

Not a crazy score but this is what i manged playing just now 

Will try to play this week, almost no time this year, but at least my guitar playing is improving faster than ever.

50 minutes ago, MaltaSoron said:

Oopsie, that should have been this screenshot:

@ cacahuate51  this was registered as 91% by the app 😮 

Edit: ah, it picked up the COB song instead. Somehow it doesn't feel like cheating to use Children of Bodom to fake a good score for Beginner Bass 😛 

Edited June 21Jun 21 by MaltaSoron

Great song it's like Blink-182 or Bowling for Soup vibes, was fun

3 hours ago, Vodka said:

You've got me! Of course this result is terrible. Rolls part is too fast for me. And some of solo parts too hard for an hour practice time.

Well glad you gave it another shot! /m/ thats the spirit 🙂 
Btw looks like the automatic scoring has issues detecting your images with the service you are uploading the images to. Any chance you can upload via steam or another one to see if thats the issue? I have added your scores manually for this weeks but just incase for the future.

16 hours ago, cacahuate51 said:

Well glad you gave it another shot! /m/ thats the spirit 🙂 
Btw looks like the automatic scoring has issues detecting your images with the service you are uploading the images to. Any chance you can upload via steam or another one to see if thats the issue? I have added your scores manually for this weeks but just incase for the future.

 

Well I always used imgur before but I think now they set a geoblock for Russia. Uploading not available anymore. So I had to switch to vgy.me.  ImageSnack is not available too and PhotoBucket too. So I'll try for Flickr